Provides “seed money” in two separate competitions in support of research and scholarship by faculty. All programs utilize the same guidelines and application. Also, be sure to read the Tips for FRG Applicants.

• Junior Faculty Research Grants in Sciences
  • Applied Life Sciences
  • Basic Life Sciences
  • Physical & Mathematical Sciences
  • Professional & Applied Sciences
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Junior and Senior Faculty Grants
• Deadlines:
  • Sciences: First Tuesday in April (These awards will now be on a fiscal year cycle instead of a calendar year cycle.)
  • Humanities and Arts: First Tuesday in February (These awards will now be on a fiscal year cycle instead of a calendar year cycle.)
• Eligibility: Available to instructors, tenure-track faculty, and research scientists; FRG are designed for early career faculty (assistant professors and assistant research scientists); Willson CHA grants fund both junior and senior faculty
• Amounts: Average grants are in the $3,000 - $10,000 range
• Detailed Guidelines (UGARF guidelines for both seed grant competitions)
• Application
• Tips for FRG Applicants
• Faculty Research Grant Budget Template
• Report Form
• Project Request Form
• Resulting External Funding Form

View information on all Willson Center Programs and Competitions.

Provides assistance in the form of round-trip airfare for travel to foreign destinations specifically to participate in conferences for faculty and graduate students through a competitive process.

• Deadlines: Normally, second Tuesdays in January, March, June and October.
• Eligibility: Faculty members, research professionals, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students are eligible. All Adjunct professors and Non-UGA paid employees are ineligible.
• Amount: The lowest round-trip airfare available
• Detailed Guidelines
• Application

Provides grant support to researchers in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to promote the development of new plant cultivars.

• Deadline: First Wednesday in October
• Eligibility: Full and part-time faculty, USDA adjunct positions, and permanent research scientists in the University's "Research Professionals" classification system.  Visiting faculty and postdoctoral research associates are ineligible. 
• Amount: No upper limit, however funding proposals with large budgets (above $60,000) must have unusually strong justification.
• Contact: Technology Commercialization Office: shelleyf@uga.edu
• Guidelines
• Application

• Purpose: To stimulate more diversity and inclusion-related research at UGA. Grants support initial work by early career faculty or a new emphasis on research into diversity and inclusion by established faculty.
• Deadline: April 2, 2012.
• Eligibility: Applicants must be full-time, regular (non-visiting), tenured or tenure-track faculty at The University of Georgia and have a documented scholarly and research track record.
• Amounts: Up to $2000
• Additional Information

• Purpose: To provide young University of Georgia faculty a "broad outlook and acquaintance with conditions and standards in other parts of the world.
• Deadline: April 6, 2011
• Eligibility: Tenure-track faculty at The University of Georgia in Athens. Applicants should show promise of unusual accomplishment in study at universities other than in Southern states including and contiguous to Georgia.
• Amounts Up to $10,000
• Detailed Guidelines
• Application